Realtime display of landslide monitoring data

Authors

Russ Pennell, University of WollongongFollow
D. Ruberu, University of WollongongFollow
P. Flentje, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

13757

Publication Details

This paper was originally published as Pennell, R, Ruberu, D & Flentje, P, Realtime display of landslide monitoring data, AusWeb05 - The 11th Australasian World Wide Web Conference, 5 July 2005. In A. Treloar & A. Ellis (Eds.), Australian World Wide Web Conference (pp. 1-9). Australia: AusWeb 05 Online.

Abstract

In areas of high landslide risk, dangerous situations can develop rapidly. The system described here provides near real-time landslide information via the web to researchers, emergency personnel and others assisting them to assess developing risks. Remote field stations collect data continuously and download this to a central site at varying intervals via mobile phone. Processing and display software written using the ASP.NET framework stores the data in directly-graphable form and displays graphs in response to web requests. Design challenges included the changing nature of the instruments in the field, resolved by the use of user-editable configuration files that allowed for instrument changes at short notice.